What is the difference between socialism and communism? “In a communist society, the working class owns everything, and everyone works toward the same communal goal. There are no wealthy or poor people -- all are equal, and the community distributes what it produces based only on need. Nothing is obtained by working more than what is required. Like communism, socialism’s main focus is on equality. But workers earn wages they can spend as they choose, while the government, not citizens, owns and operates the means for production. Workers receive what they need to produce and survive, but there’s no incentive to achieve more, leaving little motivation.” (Investopia) Communism often causes low production, mass poverty and limited advancement due to how people cannot really better their situation. Due to this poverty was so widespread in the Soviet Union in the 1980s that the citizens couldn’t take it anymore and revolted. Many countries have use some form of socialism, be it health care, public aid, or public school. The United Kingdom and the U.S. prove some form of socialism such as health care, military, police, firefighters, voting. Both socialism and communism are the opposite of capitalism, because in a capitalist society limitations don’t exist, and for those to go beyond the bare …show more content…
As the economy was disintegrating, the Polish government tried to implement here and there a little bit of the free market. It did not work because, as someone observed it then, it was as if the government were allowing some cars under certain conditions to follow the right-hand traffic rule, when all other cars were following the left-hand traffic rule. Capitalism and socialism are not compatible.” (Kowalczyk) This doesn’t mean that people don’t try tirelessly to prove this wrong. Many countries try to implement aspects of both, but the success is not where it should